Privacy Statement: How We Use Your Information

  • When you register, contribute, or take any other action on our site, we may ask you to give us contact information, including your name, address, telephone number and/or e-mail address. We may obtain information about you from outside sources and add it to or combine it with the information we collect through this site. We use this information to operate this site, send you news and information to you about the Gerlind Institute’s (GICS) work, solicit your participation in programs, events and activities, and obtain and confirm RSVP’s to events and programs. We use your e-mail address to send such information by e-mail and may use your telephone number to call you for these purposes.

  • We store and process your data solely for the purpose of providing information about activities and topics organized or supported by the Gerlind Institute for Cultural Studies. We do not share your data with third parties. Submitting your personal information including e-mail address on these pages, which will sign you up to receive e-mails from GICS. In no such case will we disclose your email address or phone number without your specific permission. However, we may make your comments, along with your name, city, and state available to the press and public online. 

  • You receive this information because you figure in the Gerlind Institute for Cultural Studies e-mail distribution list, which was created in the interest of informing you about and inviting you to our cultural events. We take the entry into force of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as an opportunity to inform you about the processing of your personal data as part of our e-mail releases and your associated rights.

  • We may also use your name to indicate the latest actions taken on this site.

Children
GICS does not solicit personally identifying information from children. Any visitors who is under 13 years of age should ask a parent or legal guardian for assistance when using this website and should not submit any personally identifying information to the site. For example, visitors under 13 years of age should not make donations or take any actions on or through this site.

Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. Some parts of this site may be password-protected. We may use a cookie (cookies reside on your computer and are under the control of your browser) to enable you to return to password-protected areas of the website without having to re-enter your password. If you wish to disable these cookies, the help portion of the tool bar on most browsers will tell you how do that. If you set your browser to disable cookies, however, you may not be able to access certain parts of this site.

Advertising
We may place online advertising with third-party vendors, including Google, which will be shown on other sites on the internet. In some cases, those third-party vendors may decide which ads to show you based on your prior visits to the site. At no time will you be personally identified to those third-party vendors, nor will any of the information you share with us be shared with those third-party vendors. If you prefer to opt out of the use of these third-party cookies on the site, you can do so by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt out page.

Data Tracking
In order to better serve our supporters, we use cookies and periodically analyze web logs. We may also use third-party services such as Google Analytics. This helps us understand traffic patterns and know if there are problems with our website. We may also use embedded images in emails to track open rates for our mailings, so that we can tell which mailings appeal most to GICS supporters.

URLs contained in emails may contain an ID that enables us to correctly identify the person who takes an action using a web page. We use these URLs to simplify the process of signing petitions and filling out surveys. We may occasionally present a shortened URL that references a longer URL which contains an ID—we do this to simplify the display, to prevent links from becoming broken when copied, and to ensure compatibility with email programs which do not handle long URLs. When a shortened URL is displayed in an email, you will see the full URL in the browser's address bar when you access the page.

Events
Our events may be photographed or recorded. By attending these events, you grant the Gerlind Institute the right to use your name, image, and statements, as recorded and/or photographed, to promote the Gerlind Institute and release the Gerlind Institute from all liability associated with the use of your name, image, and statements.

Links to Other Sites
The privacy policies and practices contained in this Privacy Statement do not apply to ANY external links. This Privacy Statement only applies to our site or any future sites that we may develop. It does not cover sites that are linked to by this site or sites for which we are not responsible ("linked-sites"). These linked-sites will have their own policies and practices which may be different from ours. We therefore encourage you to familiarize yourself with the policies and practices of the linked-sites, especially if you provide personal information to them.

Amendments and Consent to this Privacy Statement
We retain the right to amend or otherwise update this Privacy Statement at any time. By using our site, you consent to the collection and use of the information as we have described. If we change our policies and practices, we will post the changes in our Privacy Statement so that you are always aware of them. With this knowledge, you can make an informed decision about whether you wish to provide personal information to us.

How to Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, you may contact us by sending an e-mail at info@gerlindinstitute.org.